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...Collingwood — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that...

...Collingwood — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise ' we may safely add — for that...

...Collingwood — to whom may truly be applied the beautiful lines of our great poet : ' Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life but not the praise '. we may safely add — for that...

...such the disappointments which lie in wait to check the most honorable enterprises ! ' Fame i ? the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.' CHAPTER I. THE late Lord Byron was descended from...

...often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men — Saville. Dcxcvn. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last...And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise; Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to th' world, nor in...

...passages were probably in the mind of Milton, in those matchless verses of his Lycidast " Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity...burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise." 3 Decline .] Or give up. The...